New book on Cybersecurity with INESC TEC’s authorship

«Introduction to Cybersecurity - the Internet, the legal aspects and the analysis of digital forensics» is the title of the new book by Mário Antunes, researcher of INESC TEC’s Centre for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), in partnership with Baltazar Rodrigues, inspector of the Portuguese Criminal Police.

The increasing and exponential growth of the Internet, both geographically and in terms of the number of users and services available, has issued several challenges and has fostered the emergence of a wide range of threats in the cyberspace. On the one hand, if implementing security measures on the Internet can lead to the significant decreasing of threats, on the other hand, prevention and continuous training of users can be an advantage for implementing proactive measures to avoid those threats.

This book seeks to provide users of a better understanding on the functioning of the Internet and the prevention strategies that can be applied in order to reduce the associated risks. Some of the topics that are explored include the functioning of the Internet and its main services; social media and the aspects that are typically associated with the security of users; cyber crime’s jargon; the notion of digital proof and the methodology of the analysis of digital forensic; the introduction to intelligence gathering from open sources; the dark web, dark net and deep web framework; and an introduction to cryptocurrency.

The book is aimed at professionals who wish to acquire basic knowledge and skills on cyber crime investigation and on digital forensics analysis. It is also aimed at students of Informatics, Law and other related fields and also to the general public.

Mário Antunes has a PhD in Computer Science, holds a Master’s Degree in Informatics, both from the University of Porto, and also a Degree in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering of the School of Technology and Management from the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL) where he is the course coordinator of the MSc in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics.

The researcher mentioned in this news piece is associated with IPLeiria.